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We are almost at the end of this election - just two more results are yet to come through.
While Labour has found reason to celebrate in the results of this year's local elections, so too have the Liberal Democrats, after they gained 104 councillors and won control of Tunbridge Wells and Dorset council. What did Prime Minister Rishi Sunak have to say about his party's performance?
Sarah Olney, the Liberal Democrat MP for Richmond Park, tells BBC Radio 5 Live her party was delighted with the results. Sunak’s immediate reaction to his election losses in the local elections was that they were “disappointing” but stressed the win in the Tees Valley mayoralty.
Alluding to the party's dinosaur-themed stunt, she points to Cheltenham Borough Council - where the Lib Dems retained control - and where "the Tories are now extinct... it’s a very encouraging sign for us". That victory was the rare bright spot for the Tories. The party had lost more than 470 council seats, while Labour won the Blackpool South by-election.
She says the picture emerging "is that people are Speaking on Friday, Sunak cited his party’s success in Teesside as proof that results in the “key battleground” showed that at the next general election voters "are going to stick with us".
sick to death of this Conservative government, they’re tired of being ignored, He added that Labour "knew they have to win here in order to win a general election", but voters know "the Conservatives are building a brighter future for Teesside and a brighter future of Britain".
they’re tired of this right-wing rhetoric".
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